Need your opinion. Flooring layout

Ron-P
Ron-P Posts: 8,516
edited February 2011 in The Clubhouse
We are ready to lay our wood flooring. Our biggest decision is what direction to lay it.

Here's an overview of the area we will cover...

Overview.jpg





Flooring front to back...
FrontBack.jpg


Flooring left to right...
LeftRight.jpg
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  • newrival
    newrival Posts: 2,017
    edited February 2011
    option 2

    or diagonal :biggrin:
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  • newrival
    newrival Posts: 2,017
    edited February 2011
    i change my mind. front to back.
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited February 2011
    Laying it lengthwise will help to make the room look bigger.
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  • seeclear
    seeclear Posts: 1,242
    edited February 2011
    Front to back, definitely.
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  • maximillian
    maximillian Posts: 2,144
    edited February 2011
    ^agreed. It will make your room look longer.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited February 2011
    maximillian wrote: »
    ^agreed. It will make your room look longer.

    I second or third that! It does affect the room size.

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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited February 2011
    Agree FtoB but to be sure ask an expert.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited February 2011
    Usually strip plank wood flooring is insalled parallel to the longest wall but, nothing is carved in stone. Parallel with the sliding door will be a better look for the threshold area. Diagonal would be badass too.:eek::biggrin:
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  • wayne3burk
    wayne3burk Posts: 939
    edited February 2011
    longways -- which ever direction is longer should be the direction of the floooooring.

    i'm just sayin
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited February 2011
    Do you want the room to appear longer or wider?
    wayne3burk wrote: »
    longways -- which ever direction is longer should be the direction of the floooooring.
    Generally, yes.
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  • MillerLiteScott
    MillerLiteScott Posts: 2,561
    edited February 2011
    It looks like slab on grade. So if that is the case Left to Right. Without a doubt.

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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited February 2011
    newrival wrote: »
    option 2

    or diagonal :biggrin:
    When it was time to install mine, my biggest concern is that I didn't want the rooms (living room and 2 bedrooms) to look like bowling alleys so I opted for diagonal which was more tedious and expensive to do but really paid off and I never had any regrets.
    gdb wrote: »
    Usually strip plank wood flooring is insalled parallel to the longest wall but, nothing is carved in stone. Parallel with the sliding door will be a better look for the threshold area. Diagonal would be badass too.:eek::biggrin:
    As pointed out, some layout will make the room appear either wider or longer and this you need to experiment to see what is the best look for you. Also, you should experiment with some various design as you might be surprise that some specific layout design may look and provide some effect to the room you never thought of. Don't forget there is got to be a design that will also put value to your existing flooring (ceramic I believe?).
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  • maximillian
    maximillian Posts: 2,144
    edited February 2011
    Actually, just remembered, but shouldn't wood flooring be installed perpendicular to the floor joists? That way you can make sure to nail right into the floor joists and prevent floor squeaks later on. So you may not really have a choice.
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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited February 2011
    No doubt about it....front to back.

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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited February 2011
    maximillian wrote: »
    Actually, just remembered, but shouldn't wood flooring be installed perpendicular to the floor joists? That way you can make sure to nail right into the floor joists and prevent floor squeaks later on. So you may not really have a choice.


    Those aren't nailed down, they clip together.

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  • gdb
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    edited February 2011
    maximillian wrote: »
    Actually, just remembered, but shouldn't wood flooring be installed perpendicular to the floor joists? That way you can make sure to nail right into the floor joists and prevent floor squeaks later on. So you may not really have a choice.

    That is really Old School! Nowadays the 3/4" plywood subfloor is what the flooring is angle-nailed into. :wink: No joists involved in a slab floor, just concerns about hydrostatic pressure.:eek:
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,392
    edited February 2011
    Another vote here for the diagonal option...
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,335
    edited February 2011
    There are schools of thought both ways. However, I think the planks are too wide and too dark. It may be a better match for your decor but it will show scuffs. I like narrower and lighter planks, right to left. The space will look more open and wider. IMHO. Good luck!
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited February 2011
    I really like those planks personally......the hand carved texture to them breaks the floor up as well. Are they the 3/4" solid hardwood or are they a thinner manufactured?

    So in this room, the wood floor is butting up to the fireplace hearth, but what else is it going to bump up against in the other rooms/transitions? Planning on carrying the wood throughout or just in this one room?
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited February 2011
    ...Parallel to the Sliding door. It will also make cutting that curve around tile a lot easier. For curve cut....make card board template...transfer to plank....cut close with jig saw and finish with a drill (drill press) with a cylinder sander.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited February 2011
    Thank you all for your votes. I will be honest, both my wife and I wanted to run the planks left to right, but now you all have us thinking lengthwise, front to back. It does seem to make the room "flow" a little nicer now that I think about it.

    Brett, the planks are a 1/2" hand scrapped laminate. We shopped are butts off trying out all types from real wood, to engineered to laminates. While laminates look the least "real" nothing else can come close to their strength and durability. But, I feel we lucked out finding this one style that looks pretty darn good. The wood will be in this one room only, the rest of the house is tile, what you see in the pics.
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  • Mike Kozak
    Mike Kozak Posts: 931
    edited February 2011
    Perpendicular to the main light source (front to back)
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited February 2011
    Thank you all for your input and comments, it REALLY helped us decide and it's goes to the majority vote, which I will say, does look the best now that I think about it.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited February 2011
    Well, we're about 80% done. Spent the first 3 hours this morning clearing, cleaning and patching the concrete foundation. We then began laying the laminate. We got about 80% of it done today. Tomorrow, if all goes well, we'll be done. The time consuming part will be cutting and fitting the planks around the radius of the tile.
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited February 2011
    Ron-P wrote: »
    Well, we're about 80% done. Spent the first 3 hours this morning clearing, cleaning and patching the concrete foundation. We then began laying the laminate. We got about 80% of it done today. Tomorrow, if all goes well, we'll be done. The time consuming part will be cutting and fitting the planks around the radius of the tile.
    pics or it didn't happened! :wink:
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited February 2011
    Laying it lengthwise is give the illusion of a a bigger space.
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  • inthewoods
    inthewoods Posts: 54
    edited February 2011
    TECHNOKID wrote: »
    pics or it didn't happened! :wink:
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  • doggie750
    doggie750 Posts: 1,160
    edited February 2011
    wayne3burk wrote: »
    longways -- which ever direction is longer should be the direction of the floooooring.

    i'm just sayin

    or DIAGONAL....


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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited February 2011
    I'm sure it's too late, but I'd minimize the hearth size and square it up. Rounded is a **** to match up to flooring without some odd edging in the mix.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited February 2011
    Well, it's nearly complete, about 4 more planks to lay. Rounding that radius, as you put it, was a ****.

    We had to make a template for each plank, then transpose that from the underneath side of the plank, why, because cutting the planks from the bottom side made for a super clean cut. It's proven to be a full two day job, and we are spent. But, it will be done.

    Pics coming soon...
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